The Sun. — London, England, 1818-05-11 00:00:00

LITERARY REVIEW. MEMOIRS OF THE counT or ELIZABETH, by Lucy AIKIN, in 2 trtilifires, syn. lANGMAN and Co. (Continued from THE. SUN of Frilay.) In referring to the arrogant lather of the too insidious LEicEsTEB, ?Jiss ATKIN observes : " W e are tild that, on the same day and hour which gave birth to the Ptincess Elizabeth, a son was born to this had, bold man, who received the name of Clohert, and was known in after times as Earl of Leicester; it, was believed by the su- - perstition of the age, that this coincidence of their nativities produced a secret and invincible sympathy, which secured to Dudley, fluting life, the affections of his Sovereign Lady. It may, without superstition, be admitted, that this circum stance, seizing on the romantic imagination of therrincess, might produce a first impression, which Leicester's personal adv;;Atages, his insinuating. manners, and consummate art of feigning, all contributed to render deep and permanent." Of- the perseetii ion which ELIZABETH suffered 'Outing the reitzu of MARY, for her supposed par ticipation in WYATT'S insurrection, and of her connuival to the Tower, we . have an interest ing account, which we shall close our ex- We receive d yesterday the Pads Papers of Tiiiirsthy last. Those of Friday, which were due this. morniog, have not arrived. Nothing further of the least importance had °c entred in the Chambers. Several of the Deputies had left Paris, and it is probable the Session will soon be closed. An article from Hanover dated the 23t1 ult. says, " llis Royal Highness the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, whose marriage is fixed to take place on the 7th of May, ‘vill set ont on the 9th for England with his consort. His Royal Highness will at Frank fm t have an interview with his august sister the Qteett Dowager of WURTEMBERG. Mr. Rosa, the English Minister, found on his return to Berlin trout London a courier who had brought hint orders to proceed to Cassel to represent his Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT at the mar riage of the Duke of CAMBRIDGE." The Grand Duke MICHAEL of RUSSIA bad ar rived nt Leipsic from Berlin. From Hamburgh it is stated that the Danish frig Ate Nymph, of 44 guns, had sailed for the Me diterranean to protect the navigation of Danish vessels, and to convey presents to the Bey of TUNIS. The same article mentions that the King of SPAIN has recalled his Minister Don L. Oxts from the United States of America, and appointed the Counsellor SERNA to succeed him. The Prussian and Saxon Commissioners, who hare not yet concluded their protracted discus sions, were about to proceed to Vienna, to con tinue their negociations under the mediation of Austria. • An article from Lausanne mentiOns, that an insurrection had brOkenfitti in Lower Underwahl, in consequence of which the Authorities of the (!anion hid been compelled to invi*e for aid the ['Wet al Guarantee, and a hatta;ion of militia had marched thithei ttom Lucerne. FIVE PEI CENTS Wednesday Gii f. 70 c. InFERRED STOCK. Wednesday .S 1 f. 20 c. IWe give the remainiug Letters of our Paris Correspondent this day, and though we rely on the purity of his motives, respect the strength of his judgment, and are fully sensible that his opportunities enable him to form a very probable estimate of the state of affairs in France, yet we are by no means satisfied with the reasons - which he 'gives for the expediency of removing the Allied Troops. He describes the people of France as proud and courageous. We dont)t not their pride or their courage, but we fear the direction which those feelings might take if they were left to act as they please. It is admitted, that the Govern ment has powerful enemies, and that the Ministers have a difficult task to balance and confront then,. We do not conceive that the leading men in France, of any party, feels so touch a high sense of the indignity which their country suffers in the pre sence of foreign troops, as iu the resistance which .those foreign troops might offer, if they were to attempt to carry their ambitious projects into ex ecution. Th6seal friends of the country, who ate capable of reflection, must know that nothing like into - tit was intended by the Allied Potentates. Their object was to protect the good people of France front those of a contrary nature. The evil of the Revoktion is by. no means at an end. Factious spirits abound in all (patters of the Country, and it the Throne and its loyal ad herents were not protected by the Allied Forces, those factious spirits would soon raise their heads, a civil war would • probably ensue, the Throne would be demolished, and the whole work of de fending Europe would be again the necessary ditty of every component State.—Our Correspon dent maintains, that if the French Ministers pos sess wisdom, they will be able to save the Country without the foreign troops. But suppose they want wisdom and firmness to despise the cla mours, and to resist the machinations, of their enemies?—the peace and security of Europe ought not to depend on so precarious a condition.--We find that those whom our Correspondent deems the wisest and the purest characters in France are constantly assailed by factions Partizans, and if those Partizans gain confidence by the removal of alt controlling authority, and see a consequent opening to power, it will be impossible to keep them under, and the most fatal effects might be expected to ensue. As to what are called the Ultras, we resvect their feelings, but we pity their want of judgment ; for if they can possibly hope, after the total change of the French character in general, to see the ancient order of things restored, they must be dead to experience and sunk into fatuity. Such men are wholly out of all poli tical consideration. Their weakness renders them even ridiculous, and the rude spirit of mote intelligent characters, and the determined fierce ness of Jacobinism, would soon reduce them to total insiguificance. Upon the ,vhole, we see no security for the integrity of France, and the tran quillity of other States, but in the continuance of the Allied Troops on the French territory till there is a moral, political, and physical certainty that France is able to protect herself against the contending factions within her own bosom, most of whom endeavour to cover their ambition with a pretence of feeling for the character of their coun try, and to an honourable indignation on the in trusion of any foreign authority. A Flanders Mail arrived tr R late hour last night, from which the following is an extract : " BRUSSELS, MAY C.—Wc .i:ave this moment received news from the Hague,' of an indisposition which has attached his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange. His R , yal Highness has hoen confined to his bed ever since Friday; his indisposition is attributed to his having taken too much exercise on horse back. The situation of the patient gives no reason for un easiness, but the first symptoms so much alarmed the tender ness of her Royal Highness the Princess 9f Orange, that not withstanding her situation, she sat up all Saturday night, and has mat quitted the apartments of her august Consort.". The PRINCE REGENT, (tie Dukes (if YORK and CLARENCE, and the Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the QUEEN and PRINCESSES on Saturday. Yesterday the Qt3ltEN took an airing in the garden at the back of her Palace. Last week the Messenger, who carried the offi cial dispatch of the offer of marriage from his Royal Highness the Dike of KENT, with the sanction of the PRINCE REGENT in Council, to the Princess Dowager of LINANGEN, returned to Eng land from Cobonrg, with the assent of the Prin cess, ratified by the Trustees of her Serene High ness—namely, the Icing of BAVARIA and Duke of 13aDEN. Every preliminary of this most desirable union is settled, and we expect that a Message, announcing it, will be brought down to the two Houses on Wednesday next.—(Morn. Chronicle.) tracts :--- " Her Letter did not obtain for the Princess what she sought, an interview with her sister, and the ❑ext day being Palm Sunday, strict orders were issued for all people to at tend the churches and carry their palms, and in the mean tine she w.is privately removed to the Tower, attended by the Earl of Sussex, and the other Lord, three of her own Ladies, three of the Queen's, and some of her Officers. Several characteristic traits . of het behaviour hare been pre served. On reaching her melancholy place of destination, she long refused to land at Trititoi%s Gate ; and when the un otrte,ts Nobleman declared, that she should not Chose, Of. Tering her,'however, at the same time, his cloak, to protect "her from the rain ; she retained enough of her high spirit to put it from her with a good dash. As she set her feet on the ill-omened stairs, she said, ' Here landeth as tine a subject, being prisoner, as ever landed at these stairs, and before thee, Oh God, I speak it, having no other friend but thee alone.' On seeing a number of warders and attendants drawn out in order, she asked, ' what meaneth this ?' Some o answered ; it was customary on receiving a prisoner. 'if it be,' said she, I beseech you let it for my cause that they may he dismissed ;' iminediatelv the poor men kneeled down and .prayed God to preserve her, for which they all lost their places the next day. Going a little farther, she sat down on a stone to rest herself, and the Lieutenant urging her to rise and come in oat of the cold and wet, she answered, Better sitting here than in a worse place, for God knoweth whither you bring me.' On hearing these words, her Gentleman Usher wept, for which she reproved him, Telliag him he ought rather to be her comforter, especially since she knew her own truth to be such, that no man should have cause to weep for her. Then rising, she entered the prison, and its gloomy doors were locked and bolted on her. Shocked and dismayed, hut still resisting the weakness of un availing lamentation, she railed for her book, and devoutly prayed that she might build her house upon the rock, &c." As this Wolk combines all the romantic inte rest of a Novel, with the solid lessors of History, tve may confidently recommend it to the attention of our Headers. )TO CORRESPONDENTS. Fur Mr. FLTZGERALD's I'uem, see the Fourth Page. T 7 - IEArRICAL It EGISTF.R. TnEATHE RuYAL, Dlit , RY-LANE.--No Performance. TlzEarit& Cox/I.:NT-GA nnEv.—An Oratorio. AIAILS. Auniry.ii-2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, I Ilulland, 2 Gottenburgh, I FrAnce, I Flanders. Du E—l Dublin, I Wa.terfurd, I Warr MONDAY.—Holiday at the Bank; Exchequer, East India, and South Sea Houses. As-craze Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed fr,on the Returns made in the \Veek ending the 6th day of Isla, is as. 31.1. per cwt. ti ii; i WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO.NIORROW. Morning, 7 minutes after 7. I Erening, 32 minutes after 7. THE SIGN. SOLEM QUIS DMERE FALSUM AUDEAT LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1818. PRIVATE AND AUTHENTIC CORRESPONDENCE. PARIS, MAY s.—ln a recent letter I demon strated very deafly that the Constitutional System would never be secure in France as long as the Ministry kept in the first offices of the State party men, the enemies of that system ; but there is ,a grand phrase, by means of which all vigorous . measures are paralyzed, and that' phrase is, there must be no re-action. These words have a most peculiar virtue ; they destroy the force of the most pco , erful arguments, they answer every thing; but we may ask, have those who pronounce them reflected on their real meaning ? all troublesome times, when a party rules, it wishes to shackle every thing, and, to succeed, it will only suffer those to hold places who are the most furious partizans of its system: Men of moderation ate dismissed without ceremony. . If this parts' be pea down, and the power passes into the hands of another party, it dues not tail to follow the example of the party it has crushed. It removes from their places all its adversaries, to instal its friends. By these changes the State gains nothing, and the people has only other masters, without being in any way benefited by the change. These two examples offer action and re-action. To render this more clear, we will cite one fact, and admit another hypothetically. The madmen of 1815, resolved to change the system of the Government, got their creatures into all the ptjblic offices. The administration was entirely in tl►e hands of the Ultra-Royalists. The tact is inconte.stible; and it is well ,known that the extravagant conduct of tl.is party ren dered the Ordonuance of the sth September ne cessary. Let us suppose that this Ordonnance bad been issued tinder tl►e influence of the independent party, what would have been the result i The Demagogues would have replaced the Ultras. There was an action, there would have been a re-action. Now the Minister has not destroyed' the action, because he has loft in the political machine the springs which gave it action. Thus the Ordon nance has not produced the effect it ought to have done : it has merely transformed an acute into a chronic disease. The State was threatened with dissolution in the crisis of a horrible convulsion ; it may now decay through weakness and atony. There is no doubt that there ought to be no re action. Re-actions grow out of one another, and are nothing but the successive shocks of revolu tions. But, to prevent re-action, you must destroy the violent action that preceded it, and. which tends to produce it. If a pendulum at rest receive an impulsion, it will rise on one side, descend, and ascend to an equal height on the other immediately. We have thus had action and re-action. Would you pre vent the re-action, stop the pendulum the mo ment-it reaches the lo►►est point, when it tends to re-ascend. Would you, on the contrary, main tain the action, without fearing a re-action, sustain the pendulum at the highest point it has attained after the first impulse. .This is precisely ghat the Ministers do in niaintaining the effect of the action given by the Ultras in 1815. Is it thus.that a sage and vigorous Government should conduct itself ? I am b}• no means the friend of absolute power; but if it he not in the bands of a fool, it will have the immense advan tage of being consistent. . It is then that there would be unity of will and power, which is a most essential quality, of which the French Go vernment, up to this moment, has not been in possession. PAnts, MAY 6.—1 have just read in THE SUN of the 30th ult. an article, in which you essay to prove that it is . the interest of France, and also that of Europe, that the Allied troops should not eva cuate the French territory, and you appear to have found in my correspondence sufficient proofs to justify these- conclusions. If the occasional haste in which some of my articles hare been written can iu any way have led to such MI induction, I lament it much, for my opinion is directly the reverse, and which I feel it my duty to state frankly and unequivocally. The presence of the Allied Troops in France is injurious, and can ne ver be beneficial : I say that it is injurious, for it recall to mind incessantly, to a proud and cou rageous nation, the shame of its defeats ; it irri tates its courage, instead of calming it ; and amongst the causes which contribute the most to exalt the passions, may be counted as one Of the first, the spectacle of a foreign force, al ways ready to treat the kingdom as'a conquered country. It is in sheaving to them these foreign troops, that , the ringleaders of all parties succeed in exciting dangerous emotions in the multitude. It is in accusing the BOURBONS as the cause of the dis asters of France that they endeavour to close their hearts against that love and gratitude of which Louis the 18th is so worthy; and this re; volutionary spirit, of which you complain, is °lse g nothing more than the symptoms of iwp alieli ii t which a great and eminently warlike !mu" /11-s s naturally feel, when the fate of arms its hopes, and imposed on it tee laws of the G ' ll. oueror. Be not deceivea—The French GL'verse 'i , 10 111 ment will be so much the str, ts • wh eniS on,t r, 1 ries' have no longer the foreign powers for ao%"'' ,ed You seem to think that their troops have re7'er . 0 the French monarchy from the shocks of a tie 6 I revolution; - this is a mistake. No foreign I ri)° , 1) 10 assisted to repress the troubles of the Isere ° rt . Rhone (Grenoble and Lyons), and had th e 6° ,:' has Clesto caller) to 1 :7 4, remittent been so unwise as to have ca aid troops which did not wear the French ut .cil form, the troubles of Gr . enoble and Lyons' % . cbi tit e never possessed art alarming character, Ivb a're .., ‘ some perfidious agents, interested in di , igo isij- 5, • the truth, may say, would have spread by dclg jee , „ ; ; and would have soot; extended all over Fran ce i og On the other hand, can it really be stipposetil of 120,000 men could keep in check a population ," 28 millions of inhabitants, spread over 811 l a y mense and productive soil, amongst easily be counted more than one million of 11 lit accustomed to the use of arms ? No doubt , 4 ' s e , beginning, the presence of our troops tr" s ' l ot fol. The wrecks of the Fiend* army ''e re jol t i then dispersed, and the shame of defeat' 1 ";:j i have led the soldiers to the excesses of despai r ; ° eh the attitude of our troops, always read,' f° ° be arrested the rising emotions of a warlike re., tion, still in a state of surprize at its def e4ss ;e whore We; Besides, the throne bad no delendeiss th efi t ' i,eto dispersed, they had not time to know cite ! ' °- re a. The civil and military authorities were th e c. . og s tures of the Usurper; but this order of s c i ( iri was of short duration. The army of th e " - ii ) e d peaceably laid clown its arms, the soldiers haler re tW t i to their homes, and they have re su med the -4 of civil life.. The partizans of Buo t aastattl 6 la beets expelled front nearly all offices A lde r .ei t Government, a national army has been ore ° ' t o by degrees, and at present we have tousle less o f dread the faults of the nation than the err Wilt the Ministers. If they possess wisdom, t ile ' e li d very easily save the Thron e without us i if t o rs commit faults, it will not be the Allie d Ir° ,, that can save it. All Europe, you " ill - s o , would rise again to repress the rebellion' 0 the interests are changed, the f e ars P° 1°11 ,, e 4 subsist, the bond tshich has momentaraY is ca , so many Potentates,. astonished at their 8114113 1 ,e f ' will never be renewed. Let France then bl ei lse j . .! leave her to her own wisdom, mid be _0 41 . 01 that she will be much more Cahn wile:l'o4°loi, have alone the responsibility of her okYll c °llst ic t Have you ever heard of M. de .Covrotti, 1 7 1 4 of the Department of Vaucluse ? He iS P re --1 id, a man of the same , stamp and humour 35 0 ,0 MAGNEVAL. A recent speech of M. C 4 ' {tit t JORDAN, on the events of Lyons, heated rl ' e n e illl l i of M. de COTTON, and being unable to a si.e i , ilis Tribune to combat his colleague, he lancie(a- JO'ir duty to answer hint in a little pagylilet, '' o.o , and ill written, full of gross epigrams aot; 10 ,4 cious insults. I am sorry that AL CAld ,bf JORDAN' should suffer hint Sell to be led a ' ill. ' ' e% his imagination, I would wish him to consultcol' perience more, and that he would ofte ner - : e lsi lest that laws are made for men, and not fof 911D o ble yet I am no less the admirer of the fine al4nsijo hil character of this deputy. Irreproachab,6-4000 conduct, a stranger to all personal °IP his , wishing, beyond every other consideruci°ll6o'oo e country's good, au intrepid defende r ot nf til lie' doetrines, in the most stormy periods -- • we A el volution, the country has not a sincerer W-t in al I t i nor the House a more eloquent Orator. lit •' a/ !' ti be permitted to contradict, but not to ac cuse t or ; all parties render him this justice, and to I he . ce of ; nal glory of virtue, in spite of. the inj ustl foo rni - factions, his heart so pure, would never 11 3ve , , i 1.0 ., .., a detractor, if 'envy and hatred bad oot „sr . h I P UP , i. tie COTTON ; but envy acid hatred ar a e u" re D i ' senors. M. de COTTON dared to e° lll P l4 ol ,col c CAMILLE JORDAN to the infamous it ioflf s s D'HElittors, the Proconsul of the C°n:et o l ol vi s • who carried terror and death into the ' at it. Lyons ; every honourable mind is indig nfint l e a ; be _` l l But M. de COTTON has not stopped her e ' 0 0W; evidently declared himself, although i",athe at; about way, against the Ordonnance 01 - .e 07 September, and against the laws which 31 to his national that the King of France has giv e " 00 40 1 ; people. Thus M. de Corroal, a Prefe ct so' _, _.„„ber, j nated by the King, member of the Cl"' fit og`, Sitting amongst the Ministerialists , ' ha s o. o f (1 . 1 .'" one of the most respectable Memheo. 000 Chamber, has decried acts emanating 11. 1 45 re Majesty,.and the legislative bodies, a"( 1 b as W it presented the soundest part of the Paleoatit!3 different to the King's benefits, and a' It"' of filling has consigned all these things to a WW I ' wa i , ;l 6 the noble functions of Blecw r I s e ' f e rr ciliated with profusion, which excites the g• i t s indignation of every man of ‘vorth• ye! lo ft corm N iS, and probably will remain, Pird e , Department (f Vaucluse i e,, ht, , lit,; D ~°~ b ~~,~ fir,, tx 4 ti lte, Ai ii ,14Y1.4 1 4P 1